Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-28
A BOY DROWNED.

Howard left, boy 13 years old, is sup
 posed to have been drowned in the Connec-
 ticut river on Monday. His clothes were
 found on the bank, and in the pocket the
 sum of twenty cents which had been given
 him by his mother when he went out. He
 lived with his stepfather, 0. c. Peck, at 616
 Main street, Hartford.
 WINE OF coLcHIcUM.
 In 8 recent letter to Collector Hubbard, of
 the port of Hartford the following ruling is
 made by the Treasury department: Wine of
 colchicum, which is we'll and commercially
 known as medicated wine, is held to be duti-
 able at the rate of 50 cents per pound, under
 the provision in schedule A, T. l., 11S, for
 ''medicated wines, of which alcohol is a component part, not specially enumerated or
 provided for in this act"
 NEW CANAAN ALIVE.
 Norwalk will be largely represented at the grand lawn party to be given by the ladies of the Congregational society in New Canaan at Pinewood Terrace, the residence of MT. Ed win Hoyt, on Thursday evening. There will be booths for the sale of flowers, fancy arti- cles, artists work, Japanese goods, ice cream, lemonade. etc. Elaborate preparations are being made and a large attendance is antici- pated. Music will be furnished by the Wheeler & Wilson orchestra.
 GIRLS WHO MYsTERIoUsLY LEFT. WATERBURY, Conn.,, July 27.-Sherif 1 Sweeney, of Naugatuck, went to Danbury yesterday and brought back Sadie Talmadge, l 16, who, with Bertha Nichols, 15, left home | Saturday mysteriously. The girls were | found in an Italian tenement house near the ! New England station in the company of two \ Italians by whom they were euticed away. l They made the acquaintance of the Italians | while the latter were employed on 0 section
 of the New York and New England road near I Mlllvllle and ran away with them. 1 CoRoNERs' ExpEEsEs
 The returns of coroners' expenses for the quarter ending June 30, 1884,. in Fairfield, | New Haven, New London and Middlesex counties have been received by the State comptroller. In Fairfield county, Coroner | F. L. Holt reports forty cases, involving an | was employed fourteen days, his services | costing the State $210. In the case of Cyril Norton, of Bridgeport, he was engaged three days. The most crime is committed in the shore line counties, ,and the expense runs high only in criminal cases.
 HADN'T LOST ITS GRIP.
 The six year old daughter of MT. Edwards one of the night watchmen at the Rosedale wharf, went down cellar at her home in East | Bridgeport Friday evening and attempted to ! pick up one of pile of round clans lying on | the bottom. The clam was large one and | had it's jaws apart at the time and nipped the ! chi1d's thumb with such firm grip that she ran upstairs crying from pain and with the pugnacious clam still firmly attached. Her I mother released it's grip, but the girls thumb still bears the marks left by her strange as- l sailant.--Bridgeport Farmer.
 QUESTIONING THE GOVERNORS AUTHORITY. WATERBURY, July 27.--Leon N. Moreau, l at one time proprietor of the Spencer House, | Spencer, Mass, has been a prisoner at the police station here on a requisition signed by ! Governor Ames of Massachusetts and indors- \ ed by Governor Lounsbury of this State for | violation of the liquor law in his own State Moreau says that it is spite more than a de- sire to carry out the law. Lawyers D. F. | Webster, of this city, and Pearce, of Bristol | have had 8 writ of habeas corpus issued and ! tomorrow it will be determined whether or not Governor Lounsbury was authorized to | sign the requisition papers.
 DIED OUT IN MICHIGAN. The Charlevoix (Afich) Sentinel of June | 29 announced the sudden death of Henry Bennett, president of the Charlevoix Savings ! bank, on the evening of June 27, of cerebral | apoplexy, at the age of "A. He returned ! from milking at 7:30 o'clock and died in his ! chair. He was native of Griswold, but | had been West nearly half century; he To- | cated at Hartford, Ohio, in 1888 and carried on farm for fourteen years. He then en- tered real estate and mining transactions, became interested in banking and had been a | director of the Warren Savings bank and of | the Trumbull County National bank. He ! removed to Cnarlevoix in 1883 and was one of the original stockholders of the Charle- \ voix Savings bank and it's president from it's | leaves widow and four children. Mir. Ben nett is remembered by the older residents of | Griswold and by many friends and acquaint- l ances in that vicinity.